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Tim Cuein, you recently did something that a lot of people in this country just don't

do anymore. You went to an Oakland A's game at their home stadium. It's now called Ring

Central Coliseum and for so many reasons Tim, it was not your typical MLB game. Can you describe

the surreal scene you experienced? I can, Israel. And it starts with rain.

It was raining as all good, you know, tragic stories tend to begin with bad weather.

There's some of those dark clouds. They're really dark. Wow. What's going on over there?

Something dark and ominous. There were maybe a thousand people in the stands. The A's were

playing the Seattle Mariners on a Tuesday night. They came about three weeks after the A's had announced

that they had purchased land in Las Vegas to move the team. So a chilly chilly night at

the ballpark. You know, these are the worst team in baseball. They play in this concrete

mausoleum. There are signs everywhere rooted in Oakland, which at the time of this game,

they felt like kind of a cruel thought to the 800 or so people who did decide to go.

On to the count. It's, it's sad. You've got leaf blowers blowing water down concourses and

security guards telling people to stand back because they're going to get dirty water blown on them.

You've got people working in the concession stand, try to figure out where they can move their hot

dog cart so that the water doesn't pour down on them. And once the game starts, it is perhaps the

quietest, I mean, I've been to literally games that were louder. This was just the quietest stadium

you could imagine. You have 800 people in this cavernous stadium and nobody making noise and the

game is going on and nobody seems to care. It was depressing in a lot of ways.

It is real. I think one thing that I was struck with was sort of the inevitability of this that

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